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México (12 regiones / hubs nacionales)
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Practices in México (12 regiones / hubs nacionales)
Sustainable Modernization of Traditional Agriculture Program (MasAgro)National agricultural innovation initiative (2010-2020) led by CIMMYT and the Ministry of Agriculture to sustainably raise the maize and wheat productivity of small and medium-scale rainfed farmers. It built innovation networks (hubs) in 12 regions that connected farmers, researchers, suppliers and seed companies, spreading conservation agriculture, improved seeds, mechanization, ICT and post-harvest storage. In 2020 it was reconfigured under 'Cultivos para México'.Programa de Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (cancelled 2019)Redes de Tutoría (tutoring relationship)A Mexican pedagogical model born in 1996, when Gabriel Cámara and the Aprender con Interés team were invited by CONAFE to design rural post-primary education. It is based on the tutoring relationship: a personal contract between someone who masters a topic and someone who wants to learn it. It grew to hundreds of schools and was adopted in 2009-2012 as a national strategy by the SEP in ~9,000 low-performing schools. After the change of government it survives as a civil society organization (Redes de Tutoría S.C.) in several states, with replications in Peru, Chile and Nigeria. The model lives on within CONAFE as ABCD, in force in the 2024-2025 school year.Enseña por MéxicoNonprofit organization founded in 2011 by Erik Ramírez Ruiz as a member of the global Teach For All network. It recruits high-profile university graduates (PEM) who work for two years in low-income schools. As of 2026 it reports 13 cohorts, 249 active professionals, 989 alumni and more than 210,000 children and young people reached in 14 states. It measures impact with Teach For All's MET evaluation and was one of five countries selected by the Gates Foundation for semiannual measurement.Aprende.org (Fundación Carlos Slim)Open and free platform of the Fundación Carlos Slim launched on June 15, 2016. It integrates education, culture, job training (Capacitate para el Empleo, PruebaT, Khan Academy in Spanish) and health, with its own content and content from MIT OCW, edX, Coursera, Udacity and UNAM. Browsing at no data cost on Telcel networks. As of 2026 it reports tens of millions of cumulative beneficiaries (Capacitate para el Empleo alone reports 424 courses and over 13 million students), with use in Mexico and other Latin American countries.Enciclomedia (SEP)Federal program of the SEP (massive rollout in 2004) that digitized the free textbooks for 5th and 6th grade of primary school and linked them to multimedia resources projected on electronic whiteboards: about 125,000 classrooms equipped, total cost estimated at 23,498 million pesos. Original idea by Felipe Bracho Carpizo (1988). The secondary school version was canceled in 2007 (official letter 714/07), with settlements of ~1,870 million flagged by the ASF; the full program ended in 2010-2011. The Harvard/ILCE evaluation found that 6th grade students without the tool obtained better results (1.48 vs 1.23) than those who used it.Codeando MéxicoCivic technology (civic hacking) community and organization founded in 2013 out of a hackathon team, on the premise that technologists can create technology to solve public problems. It drove the #app115 challenge (2013), organized the technology response to the 2017 earthquakes, and maintains open source projects such as DataMX, Retos Cívicos and the Socorro chatbot. In 2016 it spun off its development arm into the company Cívica Digital. Still active: GitHub with recent activity (ecozonas-app-mapeo Dec 2025, codeandomexico.github.io April 2026).3de3 citizen initiativeAnti-corruption initiative from civil society, driven by Transparencia Mexicana and IMCO since 2014 after scandals such as the 'Casa Blanca'. It promotes that public servants, legislators and candidates make three declarations public: assets, interests and taxes, via 3de3.mx. In the 2015-2016 cycle, 366 candidates participated (69 winners). The Ley 3de3 collected 634,143 signatures (well above the ~120,000 required) and led to the anti-corruption legislative package approved on June 17, 2016, the basis of the Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción; the declarations went from voluntary to mandatory (in force since April 30, 2019).Compartamos Banco - group lending (Crédito Mujer)Mexico's largest microfinance institution, born in 1990 as the NGO Asociación Programa Compartamos I.A.P. to provide microloans to women from low-income sectors. Its flagship product is group lending with joint liability (groups of 5 to 50 people, mostly women). More than 60% of the portfolio is group credit and in 2025 it is targeting 3.2 million active clients. It was the subject of an RCT that randomly expanded branches across 110 communities.Electronic payments and savings accounts of Progresa-Oportunidades-ProsperaInnovation in the delivery of the conditional cash transfers of Mexico's largest social program: the shift from cash payments to deposits in savings accounts (and later debit cards) for beneficiaries, using the program's infrastructure as a gateway to financial inclusion for millions of poor households, mostly women. Prospera was discontinued in 2019 with the change of government.Fundación Capital's LISTA (tablet-based financial education) with Prospera beneficiariesDigital financial education solution on tablets that work without internet, so that low-income people (mostly women receiving cash transfers) can learn to save, budget and use financial products without a classroom. In Mexico, Fundación Capital implemented LISTA / LISTA+ with Prospera beneficiaries: a pilot started in January 2017 (Huamantla, Tulancingo, Querétaro, Puebla) with ~1,480 users, and LISTA+ later scaled to more than 75,000 households with USAID funding. A Mexican adaptation of a model proven by RCT.kubo.financiero (regulated P2P crowdlending)Mexican fintech founded in 2012 by Vicente Fenoll, the first 100% digital SOFIPO regulated by the CNBV operating crowdlending / peer-to-peer (P2P) lending: it connects people who need financing with investors, without traditional banking intermediation. It offers loans, savings, investment and a debit card. In February 2026 its merger/acquisition by Crédito Maestro was announced for ~610 million pesos (~US$35.6M), still subject to CNBV approval, after months of financial pressure (negative profitability and high delinquency).Pro Mujer México (Pro Mujer by Avanza / Avanza Sólido): microfinance with health and trainingSocial enterprise with more than 30 years in Latin America that integrates microcredit, preventive health, financial education and microinsurance for low-income women entrepreneurs. In Mexico it operates as 'Pro Mujer by Avanza' (~22 branches, 165 municipalities). Since Oct 2024 it strengthened its alliance with Avanza Sólido, and in Jun 2025 it transferred its credit operations in Mexico to Avanza Sólido, leaving the joint brand 'Avanza Sólido - Pro Mujer' for credit, while Pro Mujer continues with health, training and consulting. 90% of its clients are women.Salud Digna (national low-cost diagnostics network)Nonprofit organization founded in 2003 in Culiacán, Sinaloa, by Jesús Vizcarra Calderón. It offers clinical laboratory services, imaging (X-rays, ultrasound, mammography) and eyeglasses at prices up to 70% lower than the private sector, with a high-volume hybrid model and entrepreneurial mindset that made it financially self-sufficient since 2007. Today it serves more than 23 million people a year in more than 240 clinics in Mexico and has expanded to Central America. Harvard Business School case study (2010) and named by Profeco the cheapest laboratory in Mexico (2022).CASALUD / MIDO (Medición Integrada para la Detección Oportuna, Fundación Carlos Slim)Digital health model of the Fundación Carlos Slim for prevention, timely detection and control of noncommunicable diseases in public primary care. Its MIDO component screened 743,000 people in 137 health centers in 27 of the 32 states between 2014 and 2018 (BMJ Open 2021), was adapted during the pandemic (MIDO COVID) and evolved into MIDO Embarazo and MIDO Primera Infancia within the Primeros 1000 Días de Vida strategy (launched in El Mezquital, Durango, April 2025, with the state Secretariat of Health). In June 2026 the foundation's digital health ecosystem joined the national strategy against acute child malnutrition with the federal Secretariat of Health, IMSS, IMSS-Bienestar, ISSSTE and DIF in 130 priority municipalities.Seguro Popular (Sistema de Protección Social en Salud)Systemic health-financing innovation created by law in 2003 under health secretary Julio Frenk, which extended public insurance to the population without social security: more than 53 million people enrolled in its first decade, with coverage declared universal in 2012. It financed explicit packages of services and a fund for catastrophic-cost illnesses. It was extensively evaluated (including a randomized evaluation published in The Lancet) and cancelled by the federal government: it closed in January 2020 and was replaced by INSABI, which in turn disappeared in 2023.Codeando México / Cívica DigitalCivic technology civil society organization that develops open source digital tools for citizen participation and the use of open data. It drives Retos Cívicos, municipal participation platforms (e.g. Monterrey), open data and civic hacking courses, and a curated list of civic technologies (awesome-civic-tech). In 2016 it spun off a social enterprise, Cívica Digital.